Most of Canadian have heard about kabaddi before, since it is a popular sport among the Punjabi community here in Canada, and such type of kabaddi is known as Circle Style Kabaddi.
However, the type of kabaddi that we play and practice, is called Rectangular Style Kabaddi.
Kabaddi sport has a long history dating back to about 4000 years. Buddhist literature speaks of the Gautam Buddha playing Kabaddi for recreation. History also reveals that princes of Yore played Kabaddi to display their strength and win their brides. Kabaddi has undergone a sea chance through the ages, and modern Kabaddi is a synthesis of its various forms known as Rectangular, Beach and circle style Kabaddi. Kabaddi is a unique game which can play indoor, outdoor and on beach.
Rectangular kabaddi is a much more recognized sport throughout, compared to the other two forms, and as many as 50 countries play it. Kabaddi has been demonstrated in the 1936 Olympics, held in Berlin, and it attracted the attention of the public. Since Kabaddi has been part of the Asian Games, and the 1st Kabaddi world cup was held in 2004 and hosted in Mumbai, India. Furthermore, due to its rapidly growing popularity, rectangular style Kabaddi is also expected to be part of the Commonwealth games and the Olympics in the near future.
My name is Parminder Sharma, official members of World Kabaddi Organization. I was president & coach for the Italian Kabaddi federation team for 7 years. In 2013 I immigrated to Canada since 2015 I have been trying to start Rectangular Kabaddi in Canada. In 2017 we registered Canada Kabaddi association in Canada with the help of Jasbir Uppal, Jagdeep Bargota, Raviinder Athwal, Ramandeep jassal and Ahmed Maqbool. After almost 5 years of struggling I met Sean Juteau, the Sports & health coordinator of the surrey school district and Mandeep Dhaliwal, teacher at Tamanawis Secondary, who introduced me to Mr. K. De Boicee, principal of Tamawanis Secondary school. With their help we raised a kabaddi team composed of young Canadian athletes from various high schools of the school district of Surrey, BC.
From April 6 to April 15 of this year, the bi-annual Kabaddi World Cup will take place in Malaysia, and 50 teams from around 40 countries (34 male teams and 16 female teams) will be participating. Our kabaddi team will also be travelling to Malaysia to compete in the 2019 Kabaddi World Cup, male division, and represent the country of Canada,
Canada kabaddi men team participated in first kabaddi world cup 2004 in Mumbai.India got third position all players were immigrant Indian and they participated in 1st europe cup in Italy and they got first position.
Canadian women team first time participated in women kabaddi world cup 2012 in Patna. (Bihar) India also.
Satinder singh Litt & Bhupinder Singh dhami, Tarlochan singh Sangha they were the official members of these teams.
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To see present canada kabaddi association member click below
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